PUBLICATIONS
Poetry – Landing
Under Which Lyre: Hellenic Poetry Please e-mail your submissions to the editor (Natasha Bershadsky) Fu, Janling,“A song about homecoming.” Mandelshtam, Osip,“Three Poems.” McGrath, Kevin,“Homer… Read more
Poetry: Bézawit Tesfayé, La Déesse du mal
La Déesse du mal Bézawit Tesfayé Je suis sur ta pelouse comme une fleur qui éclore,Tu peux m’emplir de frimas ou m’immerger d’aurore. Tu es une blanche écume, terrienne et spirituelle, Tu connais les hommes et les dieux immortels. Déesse phénicienne,Quand tu rajeunis mon âme de tes plaisirs charnels; Je suis homme et dieu, béni et bénissant, fort et fier,De tes yeux de velours, je rallume… Read more
Poetry: Osip Mandelshtam, Four Poems
Three Poems Osip Mandelshtam I. When Psyche-Life descends en route for shadesTo half-translucent woods, following Persephone,A blind swallow flings itself at one’s feetWith Stygian tenderness and a green bough. A crowd of shades hurries toward the refugee,Meeting the new companion with dirges,And wring their powerless hands in front of her,In bafflement and timid aspiration. One holds a pocket mirror, another a perfume tin… Read more
Poetry: Janling Fu, Homecoming
A song about homecoming1 Janling Fu I was homeward bound2 Lost in windward flight unerring yet held aloft And suspended in ecstatic transition3 In liminal space4 we are circumscribed Never landing until we are home5 ‘Til we touched sacred earth6 and felt Its strange, foreign identity7 Alterity it cried Synthetically… Read more
Poetry: Kevin McGrath, Homer
Homer Kevin McGrath YOU who see through us as ifWe never walked the world,Speculating as if we wereSimply imitating your words,How absolute you are. Your genius enveloped usWe did not know that weWere formed by your kindVision superchargingThe gravity of life on earth. Then when you withdrew speechWhich made all this seem true,We were obliged to fabricatePretend days… Read more
Kevin McGrath, Homer
HOMER Kevin McGrath YOU who see through us as if We never walked the world, Speculating as if we were Simply imitating your words, How absolute you are. Your genius enveloped us We did not know that we Were formed by your kind Vision supercharging The gravity of life on earth. Then when you withdrew speech Which made all… Read more
A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth
[[This paper, published here for the first time, is based on a report for a seminar directed by Gregory Nagy and held at the Johns Hopkins University in the fall semester of 1973.]] Claude Lévi-Strauss, in works like The Raw and the Cooked (1970), has shown that attempts to analyze the structure of a given myth using the themes of only one or even of a few versions is unlikely… Read more
The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach
[[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the first edition ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made… Read more
Philosophical Fiction – Landing
Philosophical Fiction I. Books: Fourdraine, Leo. Socratica I: In Search of the Real Socrates (1.3MB PDF download).This fictional work takes the form of a Platonic dialogue in order to explore the the philosophy of Socrates. It is published by the Center for Hellenic Studies under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) … Read more